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December 17, 2007

WINTER STORM SLAPS NORTHEAST

Although snow gave an Albany, N.Y, dog an opportunity to play, above, a wind-blown brew of snow, sleet and freezing rain cut visibility and iced over highways from the Great Lakes to New England on Sunday. It stranded air and road travelers, and it caused a jetliner to skid off a runway in Warwick, R.I. At least three traffic deaths have been blamed on the storm. More on A3

BRITISH HAND OVER IRAQI PROVINCE

British forces handed over security responsibility for the key Iraqi port and oil-rich southern province of Basra to the Iraqi government Sunday, leaving some residents fearful of intensified militia clashes and Shiite Muslim extremism. More on A13

* In northern Iraq, Turkish military planes hit Kurdish border towns in a three-hour attack aimed at the Kurdistan Workers Party. More on A11

SINGER FOGELBERG, 56, DIES OF CANCER

Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56. Mr. Fogelberg's music was in the vein of fellow sensitive singer-songwriters James Taylor and Jackson Browne. More on B6